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    <center>Scilab Function</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : April 1993</div>
    <p>
      <b>xarcs</b> -  draw parts of a set of ellipses</p>
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      <font color="blue">Calling Sequence</font>
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        <tt>xarcs(arcs,[style])  </tt>
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      <font color="blue">Parameters</font>
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        <tt>
          <b>arcs</b>
        </tt>: matrix of size (6,n) describing the ellipses.</li>
      <li>
        <tt>
          <b>style</b>
        </tt>: row vector of size n giving the style to use.</li>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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      <tt>
        <b>xarcs</b>
      </tt> draws parts of a set of ellipses described by <tt>
        <b>arcs</b>
      </tt>: 
    <tt>
        <b>arcs=[x y w h a1 a2;x y w h a1 a2;...]'</b>
      </tt> where each ellipse is defined 
    by the 6 parameters <tt>
        <b>(x,y,w,h,a1,a2)</b>
      </tt> (see <tt>
        <b>xarc</b>
      </tt>).</p>
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      <tt>
        <b>style(i)</b>
      </tt> gives the color used to draw ellipse number <tt>
        <b>i</b>
      </tt>.</p>
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      <font color="blue">Examples</font>
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plot2d(0,0,-1,"031"," ",[-1,-1,1,1])
arcs=[-1.0 0.0 0.5; // upper left x
       1.0 0.0 0.5; // upper left y
       0.5 1.0 0.5; // width
       0.5 0.5 1.0; // height
       0.0 0.0 0.0; // angle 1
       180*64 360*64 90*64]; // angle 2
xarcs(arcs,[1,2,3])
 
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    <h3>
      <font color="blue">See Also</font>
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    <p>
      <a href="xarc.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>xarc</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="xfarc.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>xfarc</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="xfarcs.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>xfarcs</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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      <font color="blue">Author</font>
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    <p>J.Ph.C.;   </p>
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